St Antony Niersteiner Olberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs

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The 2007 Niersteiner Olberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (from a Nierstein site which, like Pettental, has variant spellings – St. Antony utilizes an Umlaut) smelled a bit flinty and sulfurous, but cleared off to reveal rich suggestions of peach and almond paste – albeit without a bit of sweetness – and nicely-integrated piquancy of peach kernel in a finish of satisfying succulence and length. By contrast, its overall severity and bitter, drying finishing cast led me to downgrade the corresponding Orbel. As reported in issue 179, magnate Detlev Meyer purchased the St. Antony winery in 2005, and his new team – headed by young Felix Peters – is also responsible for the wines of Freiherr Heyl zu Herrensheim. Future St. Antony wines will not indicate "Weingut" or estate-bottling on their labels, as the authorities determined that the wines of two estates could not be estate-bottled in the same cellar, even though great pains had been taken to separate them physically in the spacious facility. As this was for years a personal favorite source for dry Riesling, I regret having to report that recent wines have neither re-captured the style that prevailed under the former regime at its best nor as yet succeeded in a clear stylistic statement of their own, which hopefully time will bring. The 2007s here – of which the top Rieslings were harvested in the second week of October – are as a group slightly finer than the 2006s, but then, vintage conditions not to mention the 2006s having been harvested by a team assembled at the last minute would have predicted as much. TNo known U.S. importer